Or simply because people have not migrated all their install, or haveexplicitly disabled UTF-8 a few hours after starting to use it oncethey discovered the mess it caused and the poor support from thetools :-/

> The most common instance of non-ASCII > characters in Linux kernel code are people's names, and there are plenty > of names which aren't representable in either ASCII or iso-8859-1.> > The debate on this was years ago, and the consensus was to migrate to > UTF-8; however, the salient information should be expressed in the ASCII > character set unless impossible.

And do we really consider that people's names in *comments* cannotbe converted to pure ASCII ? I'm western european and have alwaysbeen against accents in comments (another reason to write commentsin english BTW). Unix and internet have lived without accents foralmost 30 years without anyone really bothering. And now we try toput them everywhere (even in domain names, implying big securityissues) and it causes real annoyances. People's names have notchanged in 30 years, so I guess that the rules used during thistime to ASCII-fy the names are still usable.